- ownCloud 3 is awesome on B3 (file sharing, WebDav, lots of apps, great photo albumn)
- got a Git repo working on it yesterday (remarkably easy)
- found three very promising free backup apps to try (decreasing order of geekiness):

Create Synchrnonicity - Linux/Windows GUI with all the trimmings according to brief description and reviews. This is a comprehensive, conventional Windows style backup system I think.

My guess is that for geeks, Affa using an openssh daemon on clients would be great, CS for simpler straightforward stuff, and bup if you are doing remote stuff or handling very large files.. but I have not tried any of them yet!

Will edit the post to include links shortly, but you should find them all on the big open source repos quite easly.

If you are using or try any out, please post to this thread just to let us know! Also if you have tried something else and like it.

Moloko wrote:Affa seems reasoneable, I think I'll go ahead and try it out on my B2.

In the meanwhile, have you tried any of the backup software you mentioned, or have you found other worth trying out?

/MO

Since posting I've tried several others and am settling on rsnapshot, which is similar to Affa (Affa was inspired by rsnapshot). Here are my summary notes about the two. Note that I have only read the manual on Affa, not actually tried it, but it looks very good. So I'd love to hear how you get on with it.

Affa http://affa.sourceforge.net very similar to rsnapshot (see above)
For most people I think Affa would be the choice because it looks easier to setup, configure and manage, and has some advantages over rsnapshot. I would probably have stuck with it if I'd tried it first, but as rsnapshot seems to do the job, and allows me finer control over backup frequency I may stick with that now.